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THE WONDER YEARS WEBINAR
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Optimizing Your Practice for Sale
Qualified Opportunity Zone Update: Highlights of Treasury's Second Set of Proposed Regulations
Podcast: Tax Reform and Its Impact on Exempt Organizations, One Year In
Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund Investments
Episode 26: Talking Tax Reform and Executive Comp
Executive Compensation Packages – Interview with David Lagasse, Member, Mintz Levin
What Individuals and Businesses Need to Know About the American Taxpayer Relief Act
In many ways, the labor market is as competitive as ever. Businesses continue to explore compensation packages, in addition to ordinary salary, that will help them attract, hire and retain talent. One method of compensation...more
I recently encountered an interesting situation in which someone suggested that a grantor trust be decanted into a non-grantor trust before the end of the taxable year. The reason? To avoid the special interest charge that...more
Nonresidents of California generally are not taxed by California on gain resulting from the sale of partnership interests. Under new guidance issued by the California Franchise Tax Board ("FTB") nonresidents can now...more
Tax Alchemy? How many of you remember Section 138509 of the Ways and Means Committee’s markup last September of what would have been the Build Back Better Act? (A moment of silence, please.) Allow me to jog your memory....more
Investment, private equity, and real estate fund managers should consider becoming familiar with the complex final regulations on the preferential tax treatment of “carried interest” under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue...more
While business owners wait to see whether Congress raises the U.S. long-term capital gains rate from 20 percent to 25 percent and enacts relief from the limitations on the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT),...more
Tax Gap- In a report released last week, the U.S. Treasury Department explained that the so-called “tax gap” – i.e., the difference between the amount of federal income taxes owed by taxpayers for a taxable year and the...more
If the Democrats Win- Science has not established – at least to my knowledge – any correlation between the pre-election year-end activities of individual business owners, on the one hand, and election outcomes, on the...more
On August 14, 2020, the IRS published Proposed Treasury Regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code to close the “carried interest loop hole” through which managers of investment...more
On July 31, 2020, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") and the U.S. Treasury Department ("Treasury") issued proposed regulations (the "Proposed Regulations") that provide taxpayers with definitional and computational...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) on July 31, 2020 issued long-awaited proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) providing guidance under section 1061...more
On July 31, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) providing guidance on Section 1061 of the Code, as...more
On June 24, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) issued final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) on the application of the “passthrough deduction” under Section...more
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot™ is a podcast for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. In Episode 4, John Waters discusses the ins and outs of preparing...more
OVERVIEW OF QUALIFIED OPPORTUNITY ZONE PROGRAM - The Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program, introduced in 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is a new incentive program for investments in over 8,700 QOZs located in all 50...more
BACKGROUND - Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 were added to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. These new provisions to the Code introduce a multitude of new terms,...more
The Opportunity Zones Program created by the U.S. Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (the "OZone Program") and the first wave of proposed regulations issued by the Treasury Department on October 19, 2018 (the "Regulations") have...more
Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress is now offering a new 20% deduction for “pass-through” businesses – i.e. businesses that are not corporations. With the corporate tax rate being reduced under the new law to a flat...more
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) was signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 22, 2017. The Act changes many provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, from individual and business provisions, to...more
UPDATE: The Senate Finance Committee last night released a revised version of the Chairman’s Mark of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. We are reviewing these changes and will release an update soon... On Thursday, November 9, the...more
On November 2, 2017, the House of Representatives (the "House") introduced the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("H.R.1"). This bill, if passed, would make fundamental changes in the taxation of businesses operated in pass-through form....more
Decision could open planning opportunities for non-US partners regarding sale of a partnership interest. The Grecian Magnesite Mining, Industrial & Shipping Co., SA v. Commissioner 1 case — which the US Tax Court decided...more
Jackson Walker partner Nate Smithson has prepared an updated guide to tax reform under the Trump administration. The guide covers tax brackets, deductions, capital gains, and other relevant topics in tax law. ...more